Nishan Pantha is a Computer Scientist at NASA-IMPACT, leading the LLM team. He works on ML research & engineering for open science, particularly NLP/LLMs for scientific knowledge discovery. He is interested in applied Machine Learning, NLP, Large Language Models, and designing modular, extensible, and maintainable systems. He explores philosophical domains: life, culture, art, progress, and the nature of existence. He is influenced by Feynman. He has 9+ years at the intersection of ML research and engineering, bridging the gap between research and practical solutions.